Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie; 10 March 1776 – 19 July 1810)
was Queen consort of Prussia as the wife of King Frederick William III.
The couple's happy, though short-lived, marriage produced nine children,
including the future monarchs Frederick William IV of Prussia and German Emperor Wilhelm I.

Her legacy became cemented after her extraordinary 1807 meeting with French Emperor Napoleon I at Tilsit
– she met with the emperor to plead unsuccessfully for favorable terms after Prussia's disastrous losses in the Napoleonic Wars.
She was already well loved by her subjects, but her meeting with Napoleon led Louise to become revered as "the soul of national virtue". and caused Napoleon to reportedly remark the king "has lost his best minister". In the 1920s conservative German women founded the Queen Louise League, and Louise herself would be used in Nazi propaganda
as an example of the ideal German woman.


painting: waterbased on an ivory chip
frame: dark wood
preservation painting: excellent
preservation frame: some minor wearing
dimension vertically: 90 mm
inner diameter: 40 mm
thick: 15 mm
convex glass
eyelet
no backside information





stock number 478